Amerie - 1 Thing

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If anyone is interested, I wrote about "1 Thing" and embedded a link to the Meters song that's sampled. I'm only going to have it up for another couple hours, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

amazing song

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 2 May 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone know who the mental jungle remix (bootie?) with the robot voices et al is by?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 May 2005 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone know if the "Why Don't We Fall In Love" (Richcraft Remix) that's at the end of the album is actually new? I mean, I remember the remix w/ Luda from back in '02 but I think that was a different beat, so I'm wondering if this remix was actually made recently or is 3 years old too and just tacked onto the album.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

strng hlkngtn otm

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My lord, she ROCKED Top Of The Pops this week. Made everyone else look fused to the floor. R-O-W-R.

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Sunday, 15 May 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody heard the krivit re-edits of One Thing that have been floating around - i've been cursed so far on seek.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 15 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That drummer for the Meters is so damn good.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 15 May 2005 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This is actually out in real British shops this week, btw. Everyone buy it and push Coldplay into THIRD place.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Why? I've already got it on the album. And it won't change the winner.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

How many copies do YOU have, Jessica?

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 26 May 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I only need the one innit.

― "Jessica" (nostudium), Thursday, 26 May 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

David Day turned me onto the amazing chill-out remix of "One Thing," which I have no information on at all, but I do have it on my podcast this week.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

you quite like the sticky remix. even though it sounds a bit west london. don't you?

― l///., Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

haven't heard the sticky mix actually!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

It doesn't suprise me at all that drum part is from The Meters; those are the best sampled drums I've heard on a rap/r'n'b track for ages. Do you know if anyone sampled "Hey Pocky-Way" by the same band? The drum break on that song is to die for!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

"Hey Pocky Way"
Beastie Boys - "Dropping Names"
Boogie Down Productions - "The Homeless"
Slum Village - "2 U 4 U" (Drums at end)

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

How many people want to still hold this up as single of the year? Cuz I'm switchin' votes to Missy, with this as a frontrunner.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I knew that break was too hot not to have been sampled.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

"Still Tippin'" is single of the year.

― Gavin, Monday, 11 July 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

no its not new, its not on the 1st album but it was on the single (sorry to answer so late)

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

random thoughts on '1 thing':

I generally don't like this style of stuff at all, but I dig this.

However, I hate when they pitch samples up and down like on this song; that's a pet peeve of mine. The strings are so out of tune with the guitar hits (when the strings come in at 1:57 they clash with the guitar chord sample; lasts for like 10 seconds---annoys the fuck out of me). Perhaps it was intentional, but it all goes back to my pet peeve of just shifting sampled guitar chords up and down.

The drums are really cool though, but it's a really commonly sampled Meters break. Everyone uses this one.

My favorite moment: that one time in the song when Amerie's vocal is double the octave below with some sort of pitch shifter effect (the line at 1:49, that cool pitch shifting double---and it only happens once in the song; that's really cool).

The production on her voice is great; there are some nice doublings and stereo layouts.

― Salvador (Salvador), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

That drummer for the Meters is so damn good.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), May 15th, 2005.

Indeed. Clasic!

Here's an old school Meters rap break tune:

Big Daddy Kane_(1988) Long Live The Kane_01. Long Live The Kane.mp3

― Salvador (Salvador), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

There's so much dynamism in it. It keeps picking things up from different angles, and the lyrics are really great. It's as if it wraps up the things I like about dozens of other songs into one song.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I freely admit I didn't expect Rockist to be posting that. (I admit I'm less surprised than I would have been if it was Geir.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

aside from the lil jon title track (which is only bad cuz it breaks the mood) this album has held up remarkably well for me.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

as my officemates might complain.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

x-post

It's weird, it's like it's single-handedly reminded me how to feel certain rhythms I have been feeling much for a while, or feeling like feeling.

It is a little retro though in a way, no?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

I really like the way her voice and the percussion blur together at certain points.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah this album is really good although the title track (I assume thats LJ's?) is totally skippable. Rich H. makes very good album tracks.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

(rolling sax on "Rolling Down My Face" is v. great)

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:26 (twenty years ago)

Amerie - 1 Thing (Sikk Remix)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah "Touch" is the Lil Jon. lousy single choice, too, totally killed the album's momentum.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:46 (twenty years ago)

They needed to pull a Mariah and go w the ballad.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

WTF youze guyz is crazee, "Touch" is a great song, and a very atypical sound for Lil Jon as well. What killed the momentum was the fact that the single had been around for so long that the hipsters like us were over it by the time the public caught on. Okay that's not it. But it's not a bad song by any means, so sez me and I'm often right.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah i don't really know what that means, it was only out on the album for a month or so before it got pushed as a single/video with T.I. on the remix. but whatever, I meant that aside from not liking it as a song it was a poor single choice, "Talkin' About" or any of the more "1 Thing"ish tracks would've probably sold more copies of the album.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

TI is amazing on the 'touch' rmx - it's the equivalent of 'baby boy' for me, at the time 'crazy in love' and '1 thing' were inescapable and incredible and year-defining but i actually prefer the more ostensibly generic follow-ups.

was 'man up' on the american version of the album? it's listed as a bonus track on my copy and is probably my favourite non-single.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

Whoa.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I like the way you get a succession of auditory images: bells ringing (okay, maybe metaphorical, but the metaphor gets pretty fleshed out with the bing bong part), car keys, high heels.

Also, I am amazed that I'm not annoyed by the breathy spoken part near the end of the song. It could have been just some sex kitten sort of thing, but it comes off more like there's really a subject behind it, with an inner life.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about this track today. It has such an amazing start and doesn't have any wasted space. Fantastic. I can take or leave the album though, especially "Touch".

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

So what else is there that's a lot like this that I might not have heard?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

mos def & diverse - wylin out (rjd2 remix)

― -+-++-+++-+, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Harrison#Production_Discography

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Toni Braxton - Take This Ring

It's better in some ways...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

(I still can't believe he produced the single off the last Duran Duran album)

(xpost "Take This Ring" is my shit)

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

yup 'i just died' and 'why dont we fall in love' sound "a lot" like 'one thing' you herbs

redman - watch yo nuggets

― -+-+-+++-+, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

actually most golden age erick sermon beats - so whatcha sayin!!!

― +-+-++-+, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

dilated peoples - triple optics

― +-+-++-+, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

So what else is there that's a lot like this that I might not have heard?

Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy, "Say I"

All the obvious reasons as to why it couldn't possibly be as jaw-droppingly revelatory as "1 Thing" (Cool & Dre instead of Rich Harrison, CM instead of Amerie, Jeezy instead of blissful silence) absolutely apply, but it's been my go-to track when I want to hear a sample set ablaze like a Viking funeral ship.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

Actually I always associate Christina Milian's "Whatever You Want" with "1 Thing", although it's going for more of a smoove disco vibe. I guess maybe the fact that it has Joe Budden on it, and Joe's "Pump It Up" was a bit like "1 Thing", provides something of a conceptual link.

Tha Rayne's "Didn't Ya Know" is fabulous too.

Also try Mya's "Fallen (Zone 4 Remix)"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 06:07 (twenty years ago)

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